عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ حُكَيْمٍ عَنْ أَبِي شُعَيْبٍ الْمَحَامِلِيِّ الرِّفَاعِيِّ قَالَ:
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سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع- عَنْ رَجُلٍ قَبَّلَ رَجُلًا أَنْ يَحْفِرَ لَهُ بِئْراً عَشْرَ قَامَاتٍ بِعَشَرَةِ دَرَاهِمَ فَحَفَرَ لَهُ قَامَةً ثُمَّ عَجَزَ قَالَ يُقْسَمُ عَشَرَةٌ عَلَى خَمْسَةٍ وَ خَمْسِينَ جُزْءاً فَمَا أَصَابَ وَاحِداً فَهُوَ لِلْقَامَةِ الْأُولَى وَ الِاثْنَانِ لِلثَّانِيَةِ وَ الثَّلَاثَةُ لِلثَّالِثَةِ عَلَى هَذَا الْحِسَابِ إِلَى عَشَرَةٍ.
Read English translationHide English translationMuhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn
22. A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Mu‘awiyah ibn Hakim from ibn Shu’ayb al-Muhamiliy al-Rifa‘iy who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘ Abd Allah (a.s.), about the case of a man who hires a man to dig for him a well as deep as ten times the height of a man for ten dirham; but then he fails to do so because of weakness. He (the Imam) said, ’Ten must be divided into fifty-five of which one is for the first length, two for the second and three for the third in the same way until the tenth.’”
Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.
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